Quote by D.H. Lawrence
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children,

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. – D.H. Lawrence

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I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. – D.H. Lawrence

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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. – D.H. Lawrence

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China has to go along with world trends. Thats democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. – Dalai Lama

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Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. – Robert Jackson

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The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. – Peter Singer

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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